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Gay Black Church: An Interview with Bishop Yvette Flunder

By Lisa Webster

…t free to make these decisions on their own. And this church just decided that whatever marriage they had when they got to the church that’s the marriage they would acknowledge, and any marriage that preceded that would be as though it didn’t exist. And the thing that is so powerful for me in this is that here was a group of people that found a way to solemnize the marriages of people who didn’t fit comfortably in the status quo. And I think it’s…

How Breivik’s “Cultural Analysis” is Drawn from the “Christian Worldview”

By Sarah Posner

…s enemies of America, “Judeo-Christian values,” and Western civilization. That overriding claim, that enemies of the pure or real Christian nation must be stopped before they utterly destroy it, resonated with Breivik. One of Noebel’s protégés, Curtis Bowers, has devoted an entire film to such a conspiratorial denunciation of the left, Agenda: Grinding America Down, released on DVD in 2010. The film won the Jubilee Prize at the San Antonio Christ…

Challenge to ‘un-Africanness’ of homosexuality; LGBT Catholics in Africa face church cooperation with persecution; lesbian cartoon project debuts in bangladesh under shadow of violence; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…sts. It is used to dehumanise LGBT people across Africa and legitimise the hate that we face. It is the reason I receive death threats, which ultimately drove me into exile from my home in Nigeria. As long as the notion that homosexuality is un-African persists, Kenyatta will receive applause, Mugabe will win elections, and parliaments across the continent will reintroduce harmful laws. To stop all this, we need to start by re-telling our history…

Orthodox Church’s Authoritarian Anti-LGBTQ Statement Poses Serious Threat to Academic Freedom

By Sarah Riccardi-Swartz

…use aimed at the suppression of any and all Orthodox academic research and free speech that relates to LGBTQAI persons and their rights: We call upon all clergy, theologians, teachers, and lay persons within the Orthodox Church in America never to contradict these teachings by preaching or teaching against the Church’s clear moral position; by publishing books, magazines, and articles which do the same; or producing or publishing similar content o…

Corporations, Religious Conscience, Citizens United, and Contraception

By Sarah Posner

…urt. Judge Carol E. Jackson dismissed O’Brien’s claims under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, and the Free Exercise, Establishment, and Free Speech Clausees of the First Amendment. On the RFRA claim—one that conservative opponents of the HHS rule have portrayed as more or less open and shut—the judge ruled that the coverage requirement does not “substantially burden” (the relevant legal standard) O’Brien’s religious practice: Frank O’Brien i…

Bachmann Weaves Own Salvation Story into Christian Nation Mythology

By Sarah Posner

…settling,” by knowing Jesus Christ “in his fullness” can someone be truly free, free in the way that Jesus intended when he “set captives free” by the founding of the country. It’s all wrong, of course, historically, constitutionally. But Bachmann found the precise sweet spot where testimony and Christian American exceptionalism mythology intersect. Bachmann took her speech even further, invoking the biblical story of Joshua and Caleb, who led a…

What 19th-Century Marriage Controversies Can Tell Us About The Fight Over Gay Marriage

By Eric C. Miller

…cause it is always both public and private, and both religious and civil. What then are the freedoms and limitations to religious expression in marriage? With nineteenth-century polygamy some of the debate was over the validity of the religion and Joseph Smith as a prophet, but a significant part of the debate was about the treatment of women in polygamy. There were sensational exposés describing the degradation and abuse of women in polygamy, but…

The Fire Next Time: Tibetan Protests Spread

By Megan Sweas

…bilizing the international community,” says Stephanie Bridgen, director of Free Tibet. “What I think is really exciting at the moment is that lots of young Tibetans are discussing and debating different aspects of how we should respond to the situation in Tibet.” Tsetam, for instance, feels torn between supporting complete independence for Tibet and his spiritual leader’s call for autonomy within China. Many young Tibetans break from the Dalai Lam…

Israel Votes to Limit Sheldon Adelson

By Sarah Posner

…the wrong, to tell the people what’s wrong in life. Are they insane from that? Yeah, they’re mad.’ That’s not professional journalism.” This statement, attributed to me by Adelson, was never uttered during the panel discussion. There are legitimate questions, of course, about the serious problems involved in a government limiting the distribution of media, and about laws that target an individual person or company, as Pfeffer notes. But, he goes…

Grassley Staff Memo on Televangelists Makes Clear Religious Right Opposition to Government Oversight

By Sarah Posner

…come earned in those entities. That seems to be the heart of the problem: that no one knows to what extent these organizations are abusing their tax exempt status — thereby exploiting a tax benefit, at the expense of taxpayers, for their own personal enrichment. Since a system of, basically, trust, has broken down here, why would “self-reform” work better than more government oversight of transparency and accountability? The staff memo also recomm…